Sajid Javid

What is the ERG and who are its members?

Read the latest Brexit news Theresa May is facing a leadership crisis following an exodus of Cabinet ministers in protest at the draft Brexit deal she agreed with the EU. Jacob Rees-Mogg has taken things a step further, with the Brexiteer writing a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister to the 1922 committee, […]

Windrush: 11 people who may have been wrongly deported have died

Eleven members of the Windrush generation who may have been wrongly deported from Britain are dead, the Home Secretary has said. In August it was reported that three people had died, but Sajid Javid confirmed eight more people had passed away since then, according to an update given to the Commons Home Affairs committee on Monday. […]

The Home Office has backtracked after Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes suggested that it would be the responsibility of employers to distinguish whether individual EU citizens had the right to work in the UK in a no-deal Brexit. Ms Nokes appeared before at the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday where she was asked how, in […]

Donna Francis 'should be deported' over silicone death, judge says

A woman, wanted and accused of criminally negligent homicide for injecting silicone into a woman’s buttocks during a cosmetic procedure in New York, should be deported to the United States, a judge has said. Donna Francis has been fighting extradition and is wanted in the US over the death of Kelly Mayhew, 34, who died […]

Doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis from November

Doctors will be able to prescribe cannabis products to patients from 1 November, Sajid Javid has announced. The Home Secretary had decided to reschedule the products, relaxing the rules about the circumstances in which they can be given to patients, after considering expert advice from a specially commissioned review. The new regulations apply to England, […]

Home Office to relax cannabis oil rules, available on prescription

The Home Office is set to relax rules over the prescription of cannabis oil across the UK, it has been reported, making it available to those with chronic pain within a month. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has reportedly approved the ‘rescheduling’ of cannabis-derived medicines in Parliament. An announcement is expected in the coming fortnight which […]

Labour accuses May of 'lip service' after she condemns Abbott abuse

Labour has accused Theresa May of “paying lip service to ending abuse in politics” after the Prime Minister condemned the racist and misogynistic attacks on Diane Abbott. The Opposition claimed the Conservatives “ran a nasty campaign defined by personal attacks” which “particularly targeted” the shadow home secretary. Mrs May discussed the abuse of politicians in her […]

Sajid Javid promises overhaul of ‘pub quiz’ citizenship tests

Sajid Javid has promised to overhaul of UK citizenship tests, likening the current system to a “pub quiz”, and to introduce tougher English language requirements. In a highly personal speech, he spoke of his pride that a “working class son of an immigrant kid from Rochdale” had become Home Secretary and insisted Brexit gave Britain the […]

Police to target middle-class cocaine users

Middle-class cocaine users are to be targeted by police amid fears that their drug habit is fuelling violent crime across the country, Home Secretary Sajid Javid will announce today. His intervention follows an attack by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick on young professionals who convince themselves that “there is no harm in taking a […]

Home Secretary calls for ‘public health’ approach to tackling violent

Sajid Javid is expected to announce a new multi-million fund to target violent crime, which he said should be treated like a disease. The Home Secretary is reportedly set to reveal his plan at the Conservative Party conference, which starts in Birmingham on Sunday. According to reports, he will reveal a 10-year, £200 million “youth […]

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